The father and son rushed all the way back and found that there was no one in the pavilion, so they became more and more anxious, so they could only ask the nearby tea shop.

The tea households all said that Brother Qi had gone home.

Country children are not so precious, as long as they don't touch wild beasts, they can run all over the mountains at a few years old.

But Bai Qi waited for them not to return, so he went to the tea workshop, and many villagers under the mountain were helping. casually asked, I found my grandmother and mother, and I also had a working meal outside the workshop.

The father and son went down the mountain in the dark, Shen Yourong was feeding silkworms, and Mrs. Yan was feeding chickens.

The child almost lost it, Zhu Guoxiang was quite ashamed, and said: "Old lady, we were busy buying land, and we forgot Brother Qi'er for a while......"

"It's okay," Mrs. Yan was a little unhappy about this, but not so annoyed, and asked instead, "Can you buy the land?" ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Counting the barren slope, there are more than 20 acres. ”

Mrs. Yan was sincerely happy for them, and completely dismissed the idea of marrying her daughter-in-law, she said: "This is really time to celebrate, Zhu Xianggong has finally bought a property and settled down." Zhu Xianggong is expensive this year? ”

"Thirty-five years old." Zhu Guoxiang casually said his age.

Mrs. Yan said: "It's only thirty-five, it's time to continue to find a Hun family." Lao Bai has a cousin, and his granddaughter is eighteen this year, and her family lives next to the Bai family's mansion and has several tiled houses. The girl was originally married, and she was already looking forward to her life, but the man got drunk and drowned in the river. Later, he talked about a family affair, and the man suddenly moved to Beijing, and was taken by a rich man in Yangzhou, so he didn't want to regret marrying again. came and went, and dragged on until now, it is a good match for Zhu Xianggong. ”

"The matter of continuing the string, there is no rush for the time being." Zhu Guoxiang actually wants to say, I think your daughter-in-law is quite suitable.

"How can you not be in a hurry?" Mrs. Yan became more and more enthusiastic, "Zhu Xianggong nodded, and the old woman will go to explore the wind another day." The girl has also read books, "The Female Ring" is very familiar with it, she can't look down on ordinary men, it is difficult to find her in-laws in the township, and most of them can negotiate this marriage. ”

Shen Yourong suddenly came out with silkworm sand: "Auntie, Second Sister Bai has already said goodbye." ”

"Kiss again?" Mrs. Yan was stunned.

Shen Yourong said: "I only learned from picking tea today that she had married her nephew outside of Yu Jiaao. I heard that Yu Shilang had been studying abroad all the year round and had not returned to his hometown to complete the marriage, so the woman changed her relationship in anger. Yu Shilang is twenty-two this year, and Second Sister Bai is eighteen this year, and the two are very compatible. ”

Mrs. Yan thought about it carefully and said to Zhu Guoxiang: "Zhu Xianggong, don't worry, the old woman will help you find it." ”

Zhu Guoxiang couldn't cry or laugh: "I'm not in a hurry. ”

Zhu Ming held the oil lamp and counted the money in the room, and came out with five hundred dollars: "These days, I have bothered the two of you." In addition to eating and drinking, he also borrowed beans and salt to feed the horses, and waited for the villagers to plant seedlings before they could build houses. Please accept the 500 yuan, we have to continue to live for a while. ”

"It's more, it's more, it's really asking for money, just give a hundred wen." Mrs. Yan hurriedly refused.

Zhu Ming forced it over: "It's not much, that thin horse is quite edible, beans plus salt, and a lot of straw, I can eat two people's meals a day." I've been practicing martial arts these days, and my strength is depleting quickly, don't sell the eggs that Shen Niangzi saved, and I'll be troubled to boil eggs every day in the future. ”

The five hundred wen money was pushed back and forth, but Mrs. Yan couldn't stand it, so she could only reluctantly accept it.

Shen Yourong glanced at Zhu Guoxiang and said with a smile: "Then I boil two eggs a day, and Zhu Xianggong should also make up for it." ”

"Let's cook three, Brother Qi is growing his body, and the three hens in the family are just laying eggs." Zhu Guoxiang likes that child very much, and he is much more obedient than his own rabbit cub.

"Then cook three." Mrs. Yan also wants her grandson to eat better.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took the money into the house, took out a locked box and opened it, and counted the deposits in the box by the way.

They worked hard today, Mrs. Shen earned 28 wen, Mrs. Yan earned 21 wen, and they could pick up two working meals for nothing. In the next two or three days, I have to go up the mountain to pick tea, and it is estimated that I can earn about 200 Wen in total.

Of course, this kind of good thing to make money is only a few times a year, and only large-scale tea picking needs their help.

Especially in late spring, the quality of late spring tea is not very high, and it cannot be sold at a price, and the wages for tea pickers are correspondingly reduced.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law counted and counted, counting the five hundred wen given by Zhu Ming, the total amount of cash in the family was more than six yuan.

Fortunately, Bai Saburo has been helping to reduce Shen Niangzi's family to a fifth-class household, and many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes do not have to be paid, and there is no need to serve the Ding servants levied according to men, otherwise how can orphans and widows save this money?

Mrs. Yan took a piece of soft linen, moistened some vegetable oil on the cloth, and then untied the rope of stringing money, and carefully wiped it one by one.

Shen Yourong also helped maintain the iron money, so as not to rust when used in the future, and said with a smile while wiping it: "Today in Chashan, Bai Saburo told me that he could help Brother Qi go to primary school, and he still didn't have to pay tuition." ”

"No tuition? That's great! Mrs. Yan was even more pleased.

Wang Anshi's three-way method set the country's official schools into four levels: primary school, county school, state school, and Taixue. Each school has five grades, and the exam is taken every 100 days, and the fastest can be graduated in 500 days. But if you fail to pass the exam, you may also be demoted, and too many students can be thrown back to the state to study.

After Cai Jing came to power, he immediately reinstated the three-rounding method and promoted official schools throughout the country, with the same ultimate goal as Wang Anshi - to abolish the imperial examination!

Or rather, it has been abolished.

Nine years ago, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty issued an edict to formally abolish the imperial examination, and scholars must study in official schools and be selected and appointed from the graduating class of Taixue.

The step is too big, it is easy to pull the egg, and in the midst of countless opposition, the dual-track system of further education and imperial examination can only be adopted.

The current situation is: every three years, the imperial examination, seven or eight hundred scholars. Once a year, more than 10 students are elected, which is equivalent to the Jinshi background.

Shen Yourong continued: "A few years ago, instead of paying tuition, government students could eat and live in the school for free. Cai Xianggong (Cai Jing) lost his official position, and the imperial court changed the rules, and he had to pay money to eat and live below the state school. ”

Mrs. Yan was a little puzzled: "It is said that Cai Xianggong is a traitor, how can he treat his students so well?" ”

"I don't know," Shen Yourong speculated, "Maybe bad people sometimes do good deeds, just like those heroes who build bridges and pave roads." ”

Mrs. Yan said: "It's good to be able to study government school all the time, and I can save a lot of tuition fees." ”

Shen Yourong said: "I asked Bai Sanlang, and he said that he can't go to the state school, and the state students are not allowed to take the imperial examination, and they are only allowed to continue to study in the Taixue." Taixue is only available in Bianliang, and our Yangzhou state school can only be ranked in two or three years to get a tribute quota. I entered Taixue to study, and I can only be an official by relying on relationships, unless I have learned it, I can't suppress it. ”

"Then we can't let Brother Qi study too much, and we don't have money to give gifts, so we will be trapped when we go to Bianliang." Mrs. Yan hurriedly said.

Shen Yourong said with a smile: "Auntie, don't worry, it's too expensive to learn, and the farmer can't get in if he wants to." ”

Mrs. Yan carefully wiped the iron money, looking forward to her grandson growing up soon, and he could go to the imperial examination like her son. If you can't get into the Jinshi, as long as you win the lift, you can also find a decent job in the city.

When the time comes, she will die of exhaustion and illness, and she will be able to look at it.

Outside, Zhu Guoxiang sent Bai Qi to the door: "Brother Qi, you go in by yourself and play with your mother, I have some things to turn over." ”

After sending the child away, Zhu Guoxiang took his son back to the house, lit the oil lamp and asked, "Is there a dictionary in ancient times?" ”

"What is Dean Zhu going to do?" Zhu Ming asked rhetorically.

"I'll make a new name myself." Zhu Guoxiang said.

Zhu Ming said: "There is only a rhyme book, which is barely equivalent to a dictionary." ”

Zhu Guoxiang dragged out the box under the bed, rummaged for a while, and really found "The Rhyme of the Ministry of Rites", but unfortunately there was only one fragment.

This thing used to be brought into the exam room.

Because there were too many cheat scribes who took the opportunity, Song Zhenzong banned it, and asked the examiner to prepare a few rhyme books for candidates to borrow and find at any time - there were too many candidates and often couldn't borrow them, so the poetry exam was tragic.

Don't think of the ancients as awesome, even if it was a famous minister and a Confucian in the Song Dynasty, there are not a few people who overturned the poem, because the rhyme book is complicated, and they are easy to remember.

Usually writing poems, it is possible to rhyme, and even Pingqian can not abide by it.

And the poetry exam is more rigid than the eight-strand essay.

Take Fu as an example, the title comes from Jing Shizi, and it is possible that you have never even heard the name of that book. It not only restricts the dead rhyme feet, but also stipulates the order of rhyme, and also starts and turns, and the eight rhymes run through.

Except for Su Shi, a genius writer, all the officials who were born in the Jinshi branch hated the poetry of the science field. Therefore, Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, although the party fight played out the dog's brain, they joined forces to cancel the poetry from the imperial examination.

After opening the rhyme book and taking a few casual glances, Zhu Guoxiang threw it back.

He couldn't read it......

When the book is used, Zhu Guoxiang plans to retake the table words, but he doesn't know what to take.

Random words, that's a joke.

Seeing his father's depressed face, Zhu Ming sat next to him and smiled, but in the end, he couldn't hold it back, so he went to the thatched house to pee.

Zhu Guoxiang thought alone: auspicious, there is a good omen, Guoxiang is the country's auspiciousness. Take the word Anbang, or Xingbang? It doesn't seem to sound good, but it's not as good as Yuanzhang...... Oops, it's so annoying, that rabbit cub is bullying Lao Tzu's ancient texts!

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Rich people in the countryside generally eat two meals, but there are snacks to fill their stomachs.

Tonight's food was very rich, one was to celebrate the tea harvest, and the other was to entertain two distinguished guests.

The old lady of the Bai family sat on the main seat, the two distinguished guests were second, and several female relatives in the family were also on the table.

The family status of women in the Song Dynasty was much higher than that of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Especially in the Northern Song Dynasty, not only was the science not distorted, but it was not even fully formed. Later generations also classified Wang Anshi's new learning into the category of science, but at this time, new learning and science belonged to rivals.

The distortion of science began in the Yuan Dynasty.

"The white-headed old lady has a hairpin and a red flower, and the black-headed girl has a three-haired girl. Go up the mountain with your back and pick mulberries for tea......" Bai Chongyan's wife called Zhan Youniang, she chanted the poem twice, and said with a smile, "This little Zhu Xiucai is very interesting in writing poetry, and it seems that he is really a talent." ”

Bai Chongyan said with great admiration: "Not only is he a poet, but he is also very proficient in scripture and history. ”

Li Hanzhang interjected: "This person casually drew the location of Pengcheng, Xiayi, and Lingbi cities, which shows that he has long been familiar with geography, which is not comparable to ordinary scholars." ”

"Indeed." Bai Chongyan nodded in agreement.

Take Bai Chongyan himself, although he knows the names of these cities, it is absolutely impossible for him to tell their directions.

Bai Dalang's wife, Liu Niangzi, suddenly spoke: "I heard the maid say that Mr. Zhu has traveled all over the world, and he has also sailed overseas. The sea is like the Han River, and there are water bandits and the like, and they are called pirates. Mr. Zhu once led merchant ships in the South Seas to fight the pirates. Further south in the South Seas, there is a large island where cannibals ......"

Bai Chongwen didn't like to hear this, so he interrupted his wife and said, "Make up some stories to deceive that foolish man and foolish woman, and you actually believe it?" ”

"It's said vividly, even if it's made up, I'm afraid I'm afraid I've really sailed a boat." Mrs. Liu said.

Li Hanzhang said: "This father and son must have been to many places, and it must be true that they set sail to sea." My family is in Chuzhou (Huai'an), I traveled to the south of the Yangtze River when I was a teenager, and I have heard a lot of overseas stories in Hangzhou. ”

Zheng Hong, the little fat man, became interested and asked, "What is the sea like?" Is it really all water? Can you take a boat to the other side of the ocean? What is on the other side of the sea? ”

Li Hanzhang pondered: "Perhaps, there are many islands. I heard from Hangzhou businessmen that there are also small countries overseas, with different customs and different languages. ”

"I've seen Xiyi in Bianliang," Bai Chongyan said, "They have lived in Tokyo for many years, and I heard that their ancestors came from further west in the Western Regions. Some people also say that Persia in the far west can also come to the Great Song Dynasty by boat. ”

Zheng Hong asked Bai Dalang's wife: "What other overseas stories did Mrs. Liu hear?" ”

Mrs. Liu replied: "I also listened to what the maid said, and the maid listened to what others said, and I couldn't understand it." And what kind of daughter country, the kingdom is full of women, and there is not a single man, even the lord of the kingdom is a woman. ”

"Daughter country," Zheng Hong's eyes lit up, and he said with a choke, "I can't hate to kiss it!" ”

Liu Niangzi said: "That little Zhu Xiucai also told a lot of stories, I can't remember it clearly, but I still remember the story of the Monkey King." It is said that Nuwa Niangniang is refining stones to make up for the sky, and there is a five-color stone that has not been used up......"

Liu Niangzi spoke very briefly, and the details were dry, which had nothing to do with the word vivid.

But that's all there is to it, Zheng Hong is already interested and eager to know the follow-up plot.

This guy only has two hobbies, one is eating, the other is playing, the poetry and drama on the market have long been watched, how can you bear to hear the new story?